2 Chronicles 35:10
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New International Version
The service was arranged and the priests stood in their places with the Levites in their divisions as the king had ordered.


English Standard Version
When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.


New American Standard Bible
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.


King James Bible
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the service was established; the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.


International Standard Version
As a result, the Passover service was prepared, the priests took their assigned places, and the descendants of Levi stood in their divisions as the king had commanded.


American Standard Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.


Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king's commandment.


Darby Bible Translation
And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.


Young's Literal Translation
And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king,


Commentaries
35:1-19 The destruction Josiah made of idolatry, was more largely related in the book of Kings. His solemnizing the passover is related here. The Lord's supper resembles the passover more than any other of the Jewish festivals; and the due observance of that ordinance, is a proof of growing piety and devotion. God alone can truly make our hearts holy, and prepare them for his holy services; but there are duties belonging to us, in doing which we obtain this blessing from the Lord.

10, 11. So the service was prepared, &c.—All the necessary preparations having been completed, and the appointed time having arrived for the passover, the solemnity was celebrated. One remarkable feature in the account is the prominent part that was taken by the Levites in the preparation of the sacrifices; namely, the killing and stripping of the skins, which were properly the peculiar duties of the priests; but as those functionaries were not able to overtake the extraordinary amount of work and the Levites had been duly sanctified for the service, they were enlisted for the time in this priestly employment. At the passover in Hezekiah's time, the Levites officiated in the same departments of duty, the reason assigned for that deviation from the established rule being the unprepared state of many of the people (2Ch 30:17). But on this occasion the whole people had been duly sanctified, and therefore the exceptional enlistment of the Levites' services must have been rendered unavoidably necessary from the multitudes engaged in celebrating the passover.
2 Chronicles 35:9
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